The Pro-Life Scriptural/Encyclical Rosary

Have you ever prayed an encyclical, that is, a letter from the Pope to the
universal Church? Pope John Paul II's encyclical, The Gospel of Life, is
one of the greatest and most important documents of the twentieth century. It
is steeped in the Scriptures. As you pray this encyclical, you will be praying
the scriptures, growing in faith, and building a "civilization of love" rather
than a "culture of death". With Mary, the mother of God and the mother of the
Church, let us pray:

The Joyful Mysteries

The First Joyful Mystery  The Annunciation

1) "By His incarnation the Son of God has united Himself in some fashion
with every human being" (Gaudium et Spes 22, quoted in 2).

2) The Incarnation reveals "the incomparable value of every human
person" (2).

3) "The Gospel of God's love for man, the Gospel of the dignity of the
person and the Gospel of life are a single and indivisible Gospel" (2).

4) "Respect, protect, love and serve life, every human life!" (5)

5) "Not even a murderer loses his personal dignity" (9).

6) "The pro-abortion culture is especially strong precisely where the
Church's teaching on contraception is rejected" (13).

7) "How precious must man be in the eyes of the Creator, if he 'gained so
great a Redeemer' " (Exsultet of the Easter Vigil) (25).

8) "Many married couples who, with a generous sense of
responsibility, are ready to accept children as 'the supreme gift of marriage'
" (26).

9) "Truly great must be the value of human life if the Son of God has taken
it up and made it the instrument of the salvation of all humanity!" (33)

10) "Man, living man, is the glory of God" (St. Irenaeus of Lyons, quoted in
34).

The Second Joyful Mystery  The Visitation

1) "Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of
his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God"
(2).

2) "We cannot but think of today's tendency for people to refuse to accept
responsibility for their brothers and sisters" (8).

3) "The infant leaped, the mother was filled with the Spirit" (St. Ambrose,
quoted in 45).